You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.

Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.

How do we know what the trees looked like? I thought they got buried and crumbled into carbon or something

ISO/OSI is a neatly separated model mostly used on theory.

In practice, actual network stacks are often modeled after a simpler model that is called TCP/IP. Which despite the name is not actually TCP specific.

Here’s the general description and correspondence to ISO/OSI:

1. Host to network / network access layer: it’s mostly the nic and nic driver. It’s sometimes numbered as 0 because some don’t consider it part of the TCP/IP stack, but simply the nic driver. Corresponds to:
   1. Physical
   2. Datalink
2. Network layer: Corresponds to: 3. Network
3. Transport layer: Corresponds to: 4. Transport
4. Application layer: everything that’s part of the application and not the network stack. Corresponds to: 5. Session 6. Presentation 7. Application

Or, you can just not care about how the actual software stack is separated, and continue to use the most complete model, knowing that everyone will understand what you when you say “layer 2/3/4” anyway.

Plus, some could say that the TCP/IP model is equally unfit because the Linux network subsystem doesn’t care about layers.

Edit: I hope the formatting of that table isn’t broken on your client, because it is on mine

That’s Tungsten

It places you one year ago before they rebranded in rocq (obviously to stop the puns)

There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste

You can still plug a controller with AA in and use it while the batteries are in the charger

Like I said… This did not change my mind

When AA batteries go flat you swap them and the controller is already running while the old batteries charge on your separate charger, which you can’t do with pouch batteries.

Also, it’s a game of relying on a company’s good will to provide a compatible battery, or of some Chinese manufacturer to provide it. While AAs are standard.

There’s nothing that can change my mind on the subject outside of “these batteries are standard and available everywhere forever” which you can already say for AA NiMH batteries.

Until it dies

I really don’t understand why everyone is speaking like rechargeable AAs don’t exist…

Use rechargeable AA batteries

Skill issue. Feel free to pay more to compensate.

Rechargeable controllers didn’t use to have dock stations some years ago, how did you manage then?

You have probably never played on a computer without Bluetooth, then (or headphones without Bluetooth). Using headphones connected directly to the pc is a pain in the ass. Using the controller’s jack is much better.

Yeah, but NiMH AA battery replacements are sold for 5€ a pack at my local grocery store and will never go out of production.

I meant headphone jack. But what if I don’t care about quality and latency and just want audio on my device because it’s useful to have?

Also, I think the dual sense has audio haptics like a Wiimote?

Edit: also the controller has two other connections other than Bluetooth, that can easily handle audio better than Bluetooth.

You can buy a pack of 4 NiMH batteries and use the other two when the first two recharge. The problem is not connecting a charge cable, but the fact that all rechargeable batteries eventually die, but NiMH batteries can be bought at the grocery store, and be replaced by anyone.

Batteries and lack of audio are my only gripes with the steam controller. I still think it’s better than every other controller, but I wish it had those. At least though, valve said it will be easy to disassemble with a screwdriver, so we will have a way to replace the battery with an after market one when it dies.

I’m not aware of any controller that can charge NiMH batteries tho. I think the hardware for that would weight as much as the entire controller. Also NiMH batteries don’t do well with continuous charging via dock, unlike lithium batteries.

He’s getting the french culture alright

If I did I would get uncomfortable questions by everyone I know